noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices ➜ 座禅
• Zen monk's quarters
• head priest (of a Zen temple)

noun:

• moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell
• Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster ➜ 阿古屋貝

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii); Gibb's shrew mole; least shrew mole

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take for granted; to assume
• to pretend (to be); to act as if one were ...; to fancy oneself as being
• to do intentionally; to persist in doing

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

expression:

• things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy - idiom

expression / adverb:

• as ... as one can; as ... as possible; as much as possible

noun:

• cloud ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae); wood ear mushroom; Jew's ear mushroom

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• painting with the body of a brush's bristles (to create a thicker line than possible with the tip) ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】

noun:

• Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii); Asiatic golden cat; Temminck's golden cat

noun:

• obstruction of business; interference of business; interference with somebody's duties - Law term

noun:

• an old woman's gray hair - four character idiom
• old woman with white hair

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to do something behind someone's back; to do something stealthily

noun:

• imperial prince's family; family of a prince of royal blood ➜ 親王

noun:

• producer's price; PP ➜ 生産者価格
• polypropylene; PP ➜ ポリプロピレン

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun:

• cow's tongue
• sole (any flatfish of suborder Soleoidei, esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae or true soles of family Soleidae)